…At this point,…we have almost all the content we want on the front page, with one major exception.…The second section that's on the front page is Testimonials.…And so far in the course, I've only addressed it briefly by putting the word…Testimonials in the section and also adding a background color to it.…Now, I want to add the actual testimonials in,…and here I'm going to create some new posts and then pull in content from them.…But before I can even get to that point, I have to do some pre-planning.…Because in my testimonials, I want to display head shots, so…pictures of each of the people that are providing testimonials.…

And I'm going to use the featured image function in WordPress to do that.…So, I need to make sure that the featured image function has the correct image…size for me to use on the front page.…Now in preparation for this course, I did some general mockups, and…I found that the size of image that I want for the front page is 253 by 253 pixels.…So, before I do anything else, I need to get WordPress to generate these images for…

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7/30/2014

One-page sites with JavaScript-based scrolling navigation are popular, especially for creative portfolios and company websites. However, in WordPress, single-page sites also have severe restrictions and can be hard to manage. This course shows you how you can create a dynamic one-page front page for your WordPress site that pulls content from different areas and displays it in a visually stunning way. This method allows the front page to update automatically as site content changes, without you having to constantly manage it. Staff author Morten Rand-Hendriksen will take you step by step through this solution: creating a new template and content pages, calling content to the front page with custom loops, and adding JavaScript to enable sticky menus and scrolling.

Topics include:

Creating a foundation for the front page with a child theme, styles, and dummy content